Gehry says Toronto missed its chance with architecture

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Gehry says Toronto missed its chance with architecture

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / February 15

Frank Gehry

Star architect Frank Gehry says Toronto can't transform itself into an architectural hot spot with just a few high profile building projects. Toronto-born Gehry, perhaps best known for Bilbao's undulating titanium clad Guggenheim Museum, is redesigning Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario. He was in Toronto Tuesday to unveil a new art exhibit of his work. But he tore a strip off his hometown's architectural legacy, saying even the current spate of renovation at cultural venues won't change the city's character. A new opera house is being built in the heart of the financial district, and Daniel Libeskind, who built the haunting Jewish Museum in Berlin, has designed a crystalline addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Several other renovation projects are also under way. The city missed its chance by building lines of condos along the waterfront, he said, responding to questions from reporters about Toronto architecture.

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